Azizyie Mosque

The Azizyie Mosque is a mosque placed at 2 Independen?ei Street in Tulcea, Romania, within the Dobruja location. It become constructed in 1863, throughout the reign of Sultan Abdülaziz, to whom it's miles devoted and after whom it is called. Among the most important mosques constructed by way of the Ottoman Empire in Dobruja, it's miles manufactured from reduce stone eighty five cm thick. It has 32 home windows, of which 18 are at the top component, making sure herbal lighting fixtures for the indoors terrace that surrounds the constructing on 3 sides.

From the duration while the mosque changed into founded, a Turkish college functioned adjacent to the mosque; courting to 1865, it is now closed. The contemporary minaret dates to 1897. By that time, Dobruja became part of the Romanian Old Kingdom, and the minaret turned into rebuilt the usage of price range supplied by using the Religious Affairs and Public Instruction Ministry. The mosque and the previous college are indexed as historic monuments through Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.